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Carroll Co. Birds 3/4-6/08

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Bob Ringler

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Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:22:55 +0000

   On Tuesday evening (3/4) at Liberty Lake, seen from the end of Oakland Road:

Canada Goose  34
Mallard  11
Ring-necked Duck  32, Baltimore only
Unidentified scaup  25, Baltimore only
Common Merganser  13
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  1, first of the season here
Bald Eagle  1 adult, Carroll only
Coot  2, Carroll only
Ring-billed Gull  50
American Crow  15, flying east to roost in Baltimore
Fish Crow  70, ditto

  On Wednesday afternoon (3/5) at Piney Run Park:

Canada Goose  102
Greylag Goose  1 white bird with some gray mottling
Tundra Swan  3
Black Duck  2
Mallard  8
Canvasback  10
Ring-necked Duck  37
Lesser Scaup  3
Bufflehead  14
Hooded Merganser  20
Common Merganser  31
Ruddy Duck  70
Pied-billed Grebe  17
Horned Grebe  3
Great Blue Heron  1
Coot  39
Ring-billed Gull  39

   This afternoon (3/6) in the Liberty Watershed on Deer Park Road:

Pine Warbler  1 singing male, my first migrant warbler of the year

   This evening at Morgan Run NEA off Ben Rose Lane:

Canada Goose  97, three flocks flying north at sunset
Woodcock  6, including one seen on the ground ~50' away & one fluttering close overhead
Tree Sparrow  7, small flock seen before sunset

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD